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John A Lee Papers

2017

A unique personal history, spanning eight decades of the 20th century, the John A Lee papers comprise personal letters, photographs, annotated scrapbooks, hand-written manuscripts and typescripts of his published works, speeches and radio broadcasts.

The John A Lee papers cover every aspect of his long and eventful life, beginning with photographs of his forebears and of his childhood. Lee frequently returned in his writings to his formative years, mulling over his early upbringing, stints in borstal and prison, youthful adventures on the road as a ‘swagman’ and encounters as a soldier. He likewise revisited his quarrel with Savage time and again. His circle of correspondents was unusually wide, including politicians such as David Lange and Robert Muldoon (among a host of others) and literary figures such as Robin Hyde, Maurice Shadbolt and Michael King.

Archive Location

John A Lee bust by Molly Macalister 1967

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Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections, Auckland